then people have an incentive to buy their houses sooner rather than later and so you can give the economy an extra lift. >> that makes the housing industry very nervous and some american, too. but do you agree with what larry summers said? >> absolutely not. i don't think i've ever agreed with larry summers on anything. he was a disaster as an adviser to obama. that's crazy. the one tax break most middle-income families in this country can get unlike everything that's available to the wealthy and the spk lay or thes and everybody else is their mortgage interest deduction. i'm going to fight to keep that. >> congressman peter defazio, thank you very much. great to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> gentlemen, let me go back to this whole idea of the impact beyond the real numbers, just, you know, analysis of what it might mean financially, because there are several also pekts of going off the fiscal cliff. obviously those economic implications. but if this drags on, clarence, into the new year and beyond, could it have serious implications for the president's second-term agenda, sta